My Top 10 Water Slides
I have been to two waterparks so far this summer, and I have also done a slide at kings island, now I am ranking my top ten water slides and water coasters I have done so far this summer. I plan to do an updated post as we do more.
I did not do all of the slides on the tower of Black Thunder, but the one I did do was very fast. It has two big drops, the first being about twenty feet, and the second one was somewhere around forty feet. It is an enclosed ride, and even though it was really simple, it is a really fast and fun water slide.
Bakuli is the second tallest slide at Holiday World and it is just really fun. It swerves around at the top for about seven seconds and then has a surprise drop about fifty or sixty feet down into an open toilet bowl. You go around the toilet bowl once or twice, then drop about ten feet into the landing pool below. This is a four person tube slide.
This is a very simple ride, but it is also really fun and steep. You start by dropping down a wall, then go up another wall and then go back and forth between the two walls. If you do it with someone else, the lighter of the two has to go backwards down the 75º drop.
This is the tallest slide at Holiday World and it is a very long ride. It even claims to be the longest enclosed water slide. It isn’t very fast, but it is still very fun. The whole ride has the same pattern, being a ten foot drop into a U-Turn.
Zoombabwe is also a four person tube slide.
Time Warp is almost identical to Bakuli, but its drop isn’t as steep, and the toilet bowl part is all enclosed. I like the drop on Bakuli more but I like this one a little bit more because you don’t know where the heck you’re going. It is a four person tube slide.
Wildebeest is different from the other rides that you have seen so far, because it is a water coaster. It takes you up a conveyor belt, into a tunnel and you go through a series of drops, turns, and tunnels. You sit in a raft with three other people on this ride. The drops are as high as 30 feet.
The Point of No Return is a very simple body slide. It is on an eighty or ninety foot tower, and you just slide down eighty or ninety feet. As you go over the edge, you feel like you hang there for a second or two before dropping. It is an extremely steep drop as well.
Tropical Plunge is a tower of waterslides, but I have only done one of the three sixty five foot identical body slides. You start out in a capsule, and suddenly the floor drops, and you drop down to a turn. After the turn you drop down one more smaller drop and you’re done. It is definitely not the easiest slide to muster up the courage for, but if you do, it is a really great slide. There is also a couple tube slides on the same tower that look pretty fun.
The Mammoth is like the Wildebeest because it is another water coaster at Holiday World, but it I like it more because it has bigger drops, it is longer, and it is a round, six person raft. It is even the longest water coaster in the world! It’s biggest drop is about forty feet and at 60 degree drop. It’s design is very similar to the Wildebeest. It is also located right next to Wildebeest, so the two intertwine with each other a lot.
Black Anaconda is my favorite water ride I have ever done, and when I went to Noah’s Ark, I rode this water coaster three times, more than any other ride in the park. It starts out with a sixty foot drop straight into a tunnel and then you go through a series of tunnels and twists hills. About halfway through you get drenched and then exit the tunnel and keep going throughout the ride.
The only thing that I would like this ride to have is four person rafts instead of just three, but other than that, it is amazing. The Mammoth is really good too, but this barely beats it out.
